Danes dare to believe

FC Copenhagen are fast learners who aim to put up a fight against Celtic on Tuesday

Jens Jessen Vej doesn’t look the sort of street on which to find glamour but it is the only address for Champions League football in Scandinavia. With their Danish owner, Norwegian coach and Swedish captain, FC Copenhagen represent more than a mere country. A huge banner before their debut in the tournament 11 days ago described them as ‘Scandinavia’s Finest’. Nevertheless, the taxi driver needs her satellite navigation system to trace a route out from central Copenhagen to the suburb of Frederiksberg where their headquarters sits opposite a small church and local schoolchildren hardly spare Number 10 a glance as they cycle past. You can press the buzzer at the front door but nobody answers and only when you make your way down an overgrown lane to the side does the true scale of what is hidden behind the small, beige building become apparent. Pitches stretch off into the distance